Here’s what we are reading today: manipulating neurons with light ““Optogenetics has more than anything else let people play the piano in the brain, as opposed to just slamming their whole forearm down on all the keys,” says Joshua Sanes, a neuroscientist at Harvard.” systems of process and consequences “”To date the biological Read more…
Here’s what I am reading today: smarter than a chicken “Benjamin Blencowe, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre and Banbury Chair in Medical Research, and his team have uncovered how a small change in a protein called PTBP1 can spur the creation of neurons — cells that Read more…
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here’s what we’re reading today: speed cells! “Still mysterious, however, is how grid and place cells obtain the information that every GPS system requires: the angle and speed of an object’s movement relative to a known starting point, says Edvard Moser, co-author of the new study along with May-Britt Moser, Read more…
Here’s what I am reading today: a feeling prosthesis “The innovation is the result of a two-fold process, developed by Professor Hubert Egger at the University of Linz in northern Austria. Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient’s stump to healthy tissue in the thigh, placing them Read more…